Best movies of before 2000 that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Michael Jayston, Ania Marson,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Actors : Richard Benjamin, Carrie Snodgress, Frank Langella, Lorraine Cullen,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.

Actors : Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Peter Glenville,

A cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomat's wife in Haiti under the violent reign of the despot "Papa Doc" Duvalier.

Actors : Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.

Actors : Sandra Dee, Rock Hudson, Bobby Darin, Gina Lollobrigida,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Younger generation vs. "older" folks on vacation at an Italian villa.

Actors : Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter, Doris Day, James Garner,
Directors : Michael Gordon,

After five years lost at sea, a missing wife thought long dead returns just after her husband remarries.

Actors : Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

In Chicago, during the Prohibition, two rival gangs compete for control of the city's rackets.

Actors : Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell, Ralph Richardson, Katharine Hepburn,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

Over the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the ...

Actors : Robert Shaw, Ronald Hines, Simon Ward, Peter Cellier,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

This historical drama is an account of the early life of the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood, his time as a war correspondent in South ...

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Charles Jarrott,

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native land.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Estelle Parsons, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering shadow of his aging father.

Actors : Michael Pas, Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck,
Directors : Stijn Coninx,

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the ...

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

When her daughter joins a ballet company, a former dancer is forced to confront her long-ago decision to give up the stage to have a family.

Actors : Amy Irving, Sam Wanamaker, Richard Dreyfuss, Lee Remick,
Directors : Joel Oliansky,

The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will ...

Actors : Paul Sorvino, Morris Carnovsky, Lauren Hutton, James Caan,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this he cannot stop gambling.

Actors : Micheál MacLiammóir, Debbie Reynolds, Dennis Weaver, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Curtis Harrington,

Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.

Actors : Rosemary Murphy, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Lee Montgomery,
Directors : Phil Karlson,

A lonely boy befriends Ben, the leader of a violent pack of killer rats.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Robert Loggia, Jack Lemmon, Sally Kellerman,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Harvey and Gillian Fairchild face a very difficult weekend. Harvey, celebrating his 60th birthday, is stressed and depressed. Gillian is awaiting the results of a throat biopsy. Their lives...

Actors : Stockard Channing, Ian Wolfe, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.

Actors : Catlin Adams, Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnaz,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of being a popular singer.